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" Lit from within, the hue and brightness of each varies as time passes, reflecting the transit of different planets. In a 9-minute cycle, Mori has condensed the movements of the solar system over the course of a year.

The familiar imagery of ancient stone circles anchors the movements of the heavens to our own human history. "Our life was inherited from our very remote ancestors and given to us now, and we will transfer it to future generations," Mori says. The chain of life reaching back through history, and our ancestors' reverence for the natural world, are strong themes in the artist's work - reminding us how interwoven we are with our environment. At the entrance to the gallery, a sound installation makes the point explicit. "We are nature," Mori's voice echoes. "We are sustained by nature."

"I was using the formula of how a black hole has been fed, a circle stretched into a spiral form," she says. Yet her aim was not to create a true depiction of a white hole - if such a thing even exists - but to convey the idea of a place where the "spirit or soul of the star is born again".

Conceptually multifaceted yet aesthetically simple, Mori's art is informed not only by physical sciences and archaeology but also her explorations into the workings of the mind. "When you come to a deeper consciousness you acknowledge your life, other living beings, atoms and subatomic particles. Those things are all here in our bodies," she says. "I try to visualise how we are connected in the physical world from the very small primal particles to a greater universe."

And she succeeds: Mori's works not only illuminate connections across all levels of existence, but they put that existence in context - urging us not just to take care of our world, but to savour our time in it. "

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/mariko-mori-from-stone-circles-to-stardust.html

How can this relate to the convergent media module? Convergence of different technologies - the technologies themselves do not show convergence but the brain's interaction with them and how they are utilised.